RE: license element text subelements
Sylvain Galineau <[email protected]>
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That seems reasonable and helpful to the extent it helps generating valid WOFF metadata from an existing font file. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:public-webfonts-wg- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tal Leming > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:27 PM > To: WOFF Working Group FONT > Cc: www-font > Subject: license element text subelements > > Hello Everyone, > > I thought of a possible tweak to the metadata spec. The license element > is localizable and that means that it must contain at least one text > subelement. I was recently reminded of some OpenType fonts that have > name table data that calls the text subelement requirement into > question. > > In these fonts there is an entry for License Info URL (name ID 14) but > no entry for License Description (name ID 13). This made me wonder if > it would be a good idea to tweak the WOFF metadata spec to say that the > license element MAY contain one or more text sub elements. For example: > > <license url="http://somefoundry.com/license" /> > > This would not be a breaking change. However it would make the > localizable element spec a bit more confusing. > > Tal